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Before Jesus arrived and his divine father chilled out, the Old Testament God was, ironically, kind of a hellraiser. He was not a nice guy. He really liked killing people. And he may have actually been insane, if his willingness to randomly murder devout worshippers like Moses was any indication. Here are the 12 craziest, most awful things God did in the Old Testament, back before that wacked-out hippie Jesus softened him up.
1) Sending Bears to Murder Children
So a guy named Eliseus was traveling to Bethel when a bunch of kids popped up and made fun of him for being bald. That had to suck, and you can't blame Eliseus for being pissed and cursing them to God. But God had Eliseus' back, by which I mean he sent two bears to maul 42 of these kids to death. For making fun of a bald dude. I have to think Eliseus was looking for something along the lines of a spanking, or maybe the poetic justice of having the kids go bald, but nope, God went straight for the bear murder. But on the plus side, that pile of 40+ children's corpses never made fun of anybody again. (4 Kings 2:23-24)
2) Turning Lot's Wife to Salt
Most folks know about the story of Sodom and Gomorrah, two cities of sin God decided to kill everyone in instead of, you know, making them not full of sin. But this was a town that, when two angels were staying at Lot's place, gathered en masse and asked if they could rape them. I repeat: They wanted to rape angels. So they kind of had their destruction coming. Lot and his family were sent from the city before things went down, and Lot's wife looked back, and God turned her into a pillar of salt. It's generally understood that Lot's wife was looking back in a wistful kind of way at her angel-raping hometown, but the fact is there's nothing in the Bible to suggest this. Nor was Lot's family warned about looking back. Maybe Lot's wife wanted to see Sodom and Gomorrah get what was coming to it. Maybe she was thinking wistfully of the things she had to leave behind. Maybe she wondered if she left the oven on. We'll never know, because God turned her into seasoning for breaking a rule she didn't know existed. (Genesis 19:26)
3) Hating Ugly People
In what should be good news for intolerant religious conservatives, God really does hate people who are different from the norm. Of course, God isn't as worried about skin color or sexual orientation as he is about whether you're ugly or not. Because if you're ugly, you can just go worship some other god, okay? (Even though God will punish you if you do and also they don't exist.) Here's the people God does not want coming into his churches: People with blemishes, blind people, the lame, those with flat noses, dwarves, people with scurvy, people with bad eyes, people with bad skin, and those that "hath their stones broken." Given that God is technically responsible for giving people all of these afflictions in the first place, this is an enormous dick move. (Leviticus 21:17-24)
4) Trying to Kill Moses
In terms of people who God likes, you'd think Moses would be pretty high up on the list, right? I mean, God appointed him to lead the Jews out of Egypt, parted the Red Sea for him, and even picked him to receive the 10 Commandments, right? Yet this didn't stop God from trying to kill Moses when he ran into him at "a lodging place." There is literally no explanation given in the Bible for God's decision to murder one of his chief supporters. The line is "At a lodging place on the way, the Lord met Moses and was about to kill him." The only sensible explanation for this is that God was drunk out of his mind and looking for a bar fight, and you better hope that's correct because the alternative is that God's a psychopath. How was God stopped from murdering his #1 fan? "But [Moses' wife] Zipporah took a flint knife, cut off her son's foreskin and touched Moses' feet with it ... So the Lord let him alone." Either the sight of a very unexpected circumcision sobered God up quickly, or he didn't want to touch a dude who just touched a severed foreskin. Still, it's Moses' son who's the real victim here. (Exodus 4:24-26)
5) Committing So Much Genocide
God has killed so many people, you guys. Okay, I mean technically, God has killed everyone if you subscribe to Judeo-Christian thought, but I'm not talking about indirect methods, I'm talking about God murdering countless people in horrible ways simply because he's pissed off. God drowning every single person on the planet besides Noah and his family is pretty well known, but he also helped the Israelites murder everyone in Jericho, Heshbon, Bashan and many more, usually killing women, children and animals at the same time. Hell, God once helped some Israelites kill 500,000 other Israelites. God's crazy.
6) Ordering His Underlings to Kill Their Own Children
God is obviously good at big picture dickishness, but he also took the time to be a dick on a more personal level. Abraham was another devout man who God decided to fuck with, apparently because he knew he could. God ordered him to sacrifice his son to God (God was a fan of human sacrifice at the time). We know Abraham loved his son, so he was probably kind of upset with this, but hey, God's God, right? So Abraham tricked his unsuspecting son up a mountain onto a sacrificial altar and prepared to murder him. This story actually has a happy ending, in that right before Abraham drove a knife into his son's throat, God yelled "Psyche!" and told him it was only a test. And then Abraham received some blessings after that for being willing to kill his own child at God's whim. And all it took was the dread of being forced to kill his own child on behalf of his angry deity and, presumably, a shit-ton of awkward family dinners for the rest of his life. Abraham got off better than Jephthah, who had to follow through with murdering his daughter (burning her alive, specifically) in order to get on God's good side before battling the Ammonites. (Genesis 22:1-12)
7) Killing Egyptian Babies
Let's be completely up front: The Egyptians and the Jews did not get along. According to the Bible, the Egyptians enslaved the Jews, but the Jews had God on their side, if you kind of ignore God letting his people be enslaved in the first place. Rather getting his worshippers the hell out of there, God wanted to show those damned Egyptians what for, releasing 10 plagues that began with turning the river Nile into pure blood, and ending with the slaughter of the first-born of every single Egyptian man and animal. Now, I suppose it's possible that some, or even most of these first-born were adults who were shitty to the Israelites. But some of them had to be babies who didn't even have the time to persecute the Jews yet. And what the hell did the animals do to the Jews to get caught up in this nightmare? Were there proto-Nazi cows running around who needed to be punished for their transgressions against the chosen people? And you realize there were cats in Egypt, right? Cats who had first-born? God killed kittens. (Numbers 16:41-49)
8) Killing a Dude for Not Making More Babies
So you're a dude named Onan and you have a brother named Er. God does not care for Er, and kills him. Standard God operating procedure. Then things gets weird. Onan's dad orders Onan to have sex with Er's wife — not marry, by the way, just have sex with. This is actually pretty awkward for Onan, sleeping with his sister-in-law, and rather than give her any more kids (she had two with Er already) he pulls out. God is so infuriated that Onan did not fuck his sister-in-law to completion that he kills him, too. Now, you could argue that God demands that intercourse be used specifically for procreation, but given how much God loves killing babies and children, I don't think his motives here are exceptionally pure. (Genesis 38:1-10)
9) Helping Samson Murder People to Pay Off a Bet
More evidence that God is possibly a low-level mobster: When his pal Samson got married, he was given 30 friends, and he posed them (a completely insane) riddle. Then he made a bet that if they could solve it in a week, Samson would give them all new clothes, but if they couldn't they would give Samson 30 pairs of new clothes. Well, Samson's wife wheedled the answer out of him and then told these dudes, at which point an angry Samson had to pay up. And here's where God comes in — literally, into Samson, giving him the power to murder 30 random people for their clothes. Only a true friend would help you commit mass murder to settle a completely stupid bet. (Judges 14:1-19)
10) Trying to Wrestle a Guy, Cheating, and Still Losing
And here's more evidence that God is a drunk maniac: Jacob was traveling with his two wives, his 11 kids, and all his earthly possessions and had sent them across a river. At that moment, a guy essentially leapt out of the bushes and started wrestling. It's God! They wrestle all night, and God cannot beat Jacob, so he uses his magic God powers to wrench Jacob's hip out of its socket. But Jacob still won't let him out of a headlock until God blesses him, because Jacob has figured out who this bizarre man is. God blesses him and wanders off, presumably to go get in a bar fight somewhere. (Genesis 32: 22-31)
11) Killing People for Complaining About God Killing Them
To be fair, after God freed the Israelites from Egyptian slavery, they were extraordinarily bitchy about not instantly being in a land of milk and honey. It got so bad that God was ready to kill all of them and let Moses start the Jews over, although Moses managed to talk him out of it. But one of their more sensible complaints was that Moses was lording himself over the rest of them, which was probably true, seeing as God had given him the 10 Commandments and all that. So Moses summoned the three tribal elders who had made the complaint to a Monday morning staff meeting, but two of them didn't come. Neither Moses nor God cared for that, and God opened up the grounds beneath their people's tents, killing both tribes (God also set fire to 250 Israelite princes who'd made the same complaint). Having been well admonished that Moses was putting himself above the rest of the people with God's permission, a number of surviving Israelites were kind of pissed that Moses and God had killed so many of their fellow people to prove a point. God responded by killing another 14,700 of them with a plague. The complaints stopped. (Numbers 16:1-49)
12) Everything He Did to Job
Oh, Job. Other than a shit-ton of babies, no one had it worse in the Bible than Job, who was a righteous, good-hearted man who believed in God with every fiber in his being — which is when God decides to see how miserable he can make this dude before he gets upset. Note: This is a result of a bet between God and Satan. Also note: The bet is God's idea. He's literally just hanging out with Satan — which is kinda weird when you think about it — when he starting bragging about how awesome Job is. Satan points out that Job's pretty blessed — he's rich, he's got a lot of kids, etc., and he probably wouldn't be quite so thrilled with God if he didn't have that stuff. God downs his bourbon, presumably, and tells Satan he can fuck with Job all he wants. Satan does. He kills all of Job's children and animals, burns down his house, destroys his wealth, and then covers him in boils. Job doesn't not curse God, but he does wish he'd never been born (literally) and begs God to kill him, but no dice. This lasts a long time until finally Job wonders why a just God would be so shitty. This is when God pops up and basically tells him."Shut up, I don't have to explain anything to you." Job, having finally done something wrong, pleads for mercy, and God eventually gives him back animals and children — new ones, because the old ones are still dead. Because of a bet. That God made with Satan. For kicks. (Job 1)


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BOSTON — Hundreds of relatives, friends and teammates wept together and hugged Saturday at the funeral of a semi-pro football player whose killing led to murder and weapons charges against former New England Patriots player Aaron Hernandez. The body of Odin Lloyd was found June 17 near Hernandez's home. Police arrested Hernandez on Wednesday and charged him with orchestrating the execution-style shooting. Lloyd played for the Boston Bandits and was dating the sister of Hernandez's fiancee. Members of Lloyd's team showed up for the funeral in their uniforms and chanted his name as pallbearers placed his casket in a hearse outside Church of the Holy Spirit in Boston's Mattapan neighborhood. The crowd of mourners was so large that some could not find room inside the church for the two-hour service. Hernandez has pleaded not guilty and is being held without bail. Two other men are also in custody. Prosecutors say the three were in a car with Lloyd shortly before his death. Authorities have said trouble that led to Lloyd's killing happened June 14, when Lloyd went with Hernandez to a Boston nightclub. Hernandez became upset when Lloyd began talking with people Hernandez apparently didn't like, prosecutors said. On June 16, the night before the slaying, a prosecutor said, Hernandez texted two unidentified friends and asked them to hurry to Massachusetts from Connecticut. A few minutes later, he texted Lloyd to tell him he wanted to get together, prosecutors said. Authorities say Hernandez, Carlos Ortiz and Ernest Wallace picked up Lloyd at around 2:30 a.m. June 17, drove him to an industrial park near Hernandez's home and shot him five times. They have not said who fired the shots. Prosecutors said an ammunition clip found in Hernandez's Hummer matched the caliber of casings found at the scene of Lloyd's killing. Hernandez's lawyer argued in court that the case is circumstantial. He said Hernandez, who was cut by the Patriots the day he was arrested, wanted to clear his name. Ortiz's attorney, John Connors, said he will seek bail for his client at the July 9 hearing. He described Ortiz as a "gentle person" and said he will advise Ortiz to plead not guilty to the gun charge he is facing. Wallace surrendered in Miramar, Fla., on Friday, police said. Authorities had been seeking Wallace on a charge of acting as an accessory after Lloyd's murder. Details of that allegation weren't released. Hernandez was drafted by the Patriots in 2010 and signed a five-year contract worth $40 million last summer. He could face life in prison if convicted.
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Strippers and Coffee
This week's challenge is an interesting one – Kids in adult-oriented places.
I voted against children in adult places on the poll because this challenge immediately triggered the memory of a situation my parents and little sister found themselves in many years ago.
My sister had turned 13 and my mother had the
disastrous brilliant idea to take her on a "Sydney by Night" bus tour for her birthday.
The plan was to get the bus from Circular Quay at six o'clock, then they would take in the sights of Sydney before stopping for dinner at a lovely restaurant. After that they would cruise through Kings Cross – then catch a show.
Sounds wonderful!
But there was a fatal flaw in this plan. The show my mother booked was called "Gypsy Rose He". She thought this must have been a typo on the itinerary and was supposed to read "Gypsy Rose Lee". She had seen the musical comedy Gypsy starring Rosalind Russell and Natalie Wood a few years before and was impressed by Gypsy's ability to dance beautifully, while delicately dropping a strap from her shoulder and removing her long gloves. She thought her youngest child would really enjoy this cultural dance experience.
My father (David), on the other hand, was not so sure that this was a good idea. After all -this was Kings Cross, not the Opera House.
But there was no rating of Adults Only on the ticket and the tour was advertised as a Family Night Out.
They had a lovely evening and the bus ride was fabulous. After dinner they sat down in the 'theatre' to watch the 'show'.
Then things went something like this:
Mother – "David, is that an actor or an actress?"
Dad – "Um, hard to tell from here and it's very dark."
Mother – "David, that actress is removing her brassiere!"
Dad – "Um, yes – I believe so."
Mother tells my sister to close her eyes.
My sister doesn't want to close her eyes.
Mother – "David, is that actress removing her panties?!"
Dad – "Um, yes I think she is, dear."
Mother – "David, that actress is an ACTOR!"
Mother puts one hand over my sister's eyes and the other over my father's.
They both struggle in vain to get her hands off their faces.
Mother – "Why has that man just walked onto the stage carrying a big black thermos??!!"
Dad (now frantic) – "It means the show's over and they're going to have coffee!"
My sister yells out – "Can I have a coffee, too? This is BORING!"
Someone in the audience yells for them to shut-up and just watch the show.
My mother grabs my sister in a head-lock (hands still covering her eyes) and marches her out the door.
Then she starts on the bus driver. Why hadn't he warned them that this was no place for a child? He said it had nothing to do with him – if parents want to take their kids to see strip shows, it's up to them.
I completely disagree with the bus driver.
So my sister goes to school and shares her story with her friends.
The teacher finds out and is horrified – but the kids at school love it and think our parents are really 'cool'.
Now – whenever my mother scoffs at the way some people raise their children we gently remind her of her biggest gaff of all time – taking her 13-year-old daughter to a transvestite strip show in Kings Cross.
That keeps her pretty quiet!
Have you ever taken a child somewhere and then realised it was a huge mistake?
Do you blame my mother? (you may as well – everyone else does).
Do you think the bus driver should have interviened and warned them? (I do)
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lindahoyland (@lindahoyland) / Oct 24 2012 7:37 am
Thank you for making me smile with this story.Oh dear, your poor parents! The driver should have warned them.
seakist / Oct 24 2012 10:15 am
That story was HILARIOUS! (I loved the photos your choose too). Thanks for sharing with us 🙂 🙂 🙂
I don't have children but when I was in my late 20s, I lived alone and all the neighborhood kids, ages 3 to 13, thought I was cool and were always knocking on my door. I loved the kids, so I always let them come in. At the time I was doing a lot of poetry readings and spoken word art, and I had a promotional drawing hanging on my kitchen wall of a couple playing nude Twister, kinda in a 69 position. One of the younger kids saw the drawing and said,"He's sniffing her butt!" After that, I stopped letting the neighborhood kids in my apartment for fear of what else they'd find!
Bodhimoments / Oct 24 2012 10:23 am
How awkward for your mum, and how cool for your sister! 🙂
Like the bus driver I would not have said anything. I find that most parents around me raise their children very differently to the "system" I follow. I also find that most parents seem to make it up as they go along. Which is understandable, as raising children is THE most difficult thing in the world to do. I resent anyone's attempts to tell me how to bring up my child, as I feel I spend a lot of thought on how to raise my children, myself. I have allowed my son access to books other parents have not, on the other hand I have held him back from watching movies and reading books his peers have.
But… There was a movie I took him to, because I read the reviews and watched trailers and could not find that there would be any explicit scenes or languages, but there were. So I was extremely embarrassed. But my son asked me something during the movie which made it clear that he was not taking in much anyway. That did not excuse my decision, but I have been more careful since.
I would definitely not have taken my 13 year old to a show in King's Cross however familiar the title of the show sounded, and even if it was advertised as a family entertainment. But I can see why your mother was misled. I don't blame her 🙂 poor thing!
pbh / Oct 24 2012 11:39 am
Hilarious really. We with British heritage are so up tight about other naked humans. But, I agree with you…it obviously left an impression you can't forget.
But Natalie (she) Wood (whoops) was gorgeous!
ramblingsfromamum / Oct 24 2012 7:31 pm
OMG how hilarious but how embarrassment also! Reminds me of when I went overseas when I just turned 18 for the 1st time by myself and how mum came in to give me the …shall we say talk… I did all I could to stifle my laugh…. here I was almost 18…and back then well..I won't go into any more 😉 How precious though…hopefully now even though said bus driver should have passed comment..everyone has a good giggle about it? 🙂 xx
ocdreader/Elisa / Oct 25 2012 1:25 am
That is a hilarious story – your poor parents. I think more people would warn your folks these days, at least here in the states. They might have been accosted and at least gotten majorly dirty looks for bringing a young one to the show. And yes, the bus driver should have at least made sure they knew where they were going!
Funny though. Hopefully your sister isn't scarred or anything, I would imagine by 13 it would have been more adventure and less trauma – hopefully!
Garry Armstrong / Oct 25 2012 2:42 am
I am smiling at the "Strippers and Coffee" story. I'd be laughing if I didn't have a sore throat and some other annoying things slowing me down today. Reminds me of a story which I'll shorten as much as possible. A few decades ago, I was on assignment doing a TV News feature on strippers in Boston's Adult Entertainment Zone. One of the cameramen had brought his 10 year old daughter along for some inexplicable reason. Somewhere, during one of my many interviews, I heard the child ask quite loudly — "Daddy — why is that man drooling?". No, it wasn't me.
gigglinggranny / Oct 25 2012 2:44 pm
A terrible experience, but a fantastic story! LOL!
ElizOF / Oct 25 2012 6:10 pm
This was hysterical… I would have wanted a cuppa tea or coffee too. 😆


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Recently, President Obama unveiled a plan he claimed would cut U.S. military spending. However, several independent experts have come forward stating that the "cuts" are simply slowing future growth in military spending from previously projected figures, rather than actually cuts to the Defense budget.
In fact, Obama's "cuts" are distributed over a period of ten years, over which time the next administration, whether under Obama or a Republican president, could make drastic changes to Obama's non-binding plan. As the likelihood of his candidacy continues to near inevitability, Mitt Romney's defense plan sheds light on the GOP's likely strategy over the next several years.
Romney has been an outspoken critic of Obama's plan to slow the growth in military spending, arguing instead that spending should be increased at an even greater pace than previously scheduled. According to a recent article in the Dayton Daily News Romney spokesperson Ryan Williams told the paper, "…[he] has set a baseline defense spending target equal to 4 percent of the nation's Gross Domestic Product," Williams stated. The Dayton Daily News went on to note, "The nation recorded a $15.2 trillion Gross Domestic Product, the output of goods and services, in 2011." That would put baseline spending alone, which excludes the war budget, the military programs of the CIA and State Department, and other military contingencies, at $608 billion. Obama has proposed a defense budget of $525 billion for FY 2011. Over the next ten years, Romney's military spending plan—in comparison to Obama's—would total at least 61% higher, according to research conducted by the Cato Institute.
And while Romney has advocated for decreasing the size of the Federal Budget, it he has not specified what sectors would be cut under his Administration, citing only that he would cut 20% of overall government spending. A 20% overall reduction amidst a substantial increase in military spending would certainly translate into massive cuts to social programs that Republicans in Congress have already targeted.
Stating an interest in increasing defense spending when America is winding down its involvement in two wars is irresponsible and unnecessary. Ultimately, Romney's plan would increase defense spending 42% beyond Cold War levels, as Christopher Preble highlighted in his article "Recalculating Romney's Four Percent Gimmick." Coupled with the fact that this presidential hopeful has no specific plan where he will decrease spending to offset his plan to build up America's military in peace-time makes Mr. Romney's claims to decrease federal spending nothing but words. For Americans concerned with government spending, Mr. Romney's plan to funnel additional billions of American tax-dollars into military spending increases debt and makes very little business sense.
In fact, one recently published research study by the Political Economy Research Institute (PERI) found that, contrary to the popularly held belief of many right-wing politicians such as Mr. Romney, an increase in military spending would not produce nearly as many jobs nationwide as would the same amount of money invested in areas such as infrastructure, education, clean energy, or healthcare. In an interview with The Real News, Robert Pollin the Co-Director of PERI stated, "You will get more high-quality jobs spending on the green economy, infrastructure, or healthcare than you will spending on the military." In one especially hard-hitting example, Pollin sited figures found by PERI, showing that if the government was to spend $1 billion towards job growth, 16,800 jobs would be created by investment in clean energy, compared to just 11,800 jobs through the military. These numbers underscore the particularly faulty logic in Mr. Romney's belief that increasing the military's budget at the expense of other sectors is a sound source of governmental funding. The reality is that Mr. Romney's plan would simply prolong the military industrial complex, consequently continuing to cripple the country in a deeper mire of debt, unemployment, and unwise allocation of funds.
In response to the astronomical rate of American military spending, the Institute for Policy Studies and the International Peace Bureau launched a day for citizens around the world to speak out against their governments' use of money to sustain the harmful Military Industrial Complex. The second annual Global Day of Action on Military Spending (GDAMS) will be held this year April 17th, which is also Tax Day this year in the U.S. The time has come for people to stand together in solidarity and hold their governments accountable for their actions in collaborating with the Military Industrial Complex. In 2011, GDAMS consisted in over 100 actions in more than 30 countries worldwide. This year, groups in over 35 countries have pledged to take part in what will surely be a loud cry to "Move our money" and fund human needs rather than war-profiteering corporate greed.
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Morning Minutes: March 8
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Earwig EER-wig (verb) To annoy or attempt to influence by private talk - www.merriam-webster.com
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Today is International Women's Day, and this year is the centenary of the observance (see below). Head to this official website to learn more about the day, how you can get involved and more.
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$36,931: The median annual earnings of women 15 or older who worked year-round, full time, in 2010, unchanged from 2009, according to Census.gov.
This Day in History
March 8, 1911: International Women's Day is launched in Copenhagen, Denmark, by Clara Zetkin, leader of the Women's Office for the Social Democratic Party in Germany.
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Have you heard of this? Sharon Astyk, who I have mentioned few times before, posted last month about the Riot for Austerity. Back in 2007 a bunch of people made it their goal to live on 10 % of what the average American consumed. TEN percent. Ninety percent less than what everyone else was doing. It was a movement that grew to several thousand people and crossed 14 countries. It was a huge goal. Sharon is doing it again, and I've decided to join her.
Apparently my crazy knows no bounds. The Riot focuses on consuming 90% less than the average for seven categories: transportation energy, electricity, other fuels (like natural gas or wood), water, garbage, food and consumer goods. This is huge. Read the goal details in her post linked above.
At first, I was really excited about the Riot. Heck yeah! I can do that! I unplugged my fridge, for goodness sake. I'm an extremest rock star! And Rick has always laughed at my crazy but come along, I'm sure I can get him to go for it! We can bike everywhere. We can totally do this! I will start September 1st!
And here it is, the beginning of September. And I'm totally freaked about it. Rick is so not on board. Ten percent is such a crazy low goal. We are slated to drive 240 miles one-way to pick peaches in the next couple of weeks and Rick has two hunting trips planned. That sinks our transportation energy in the first two months. What the hell was I thinking – I can't do this. Why must I put my family through these crazy experiments. Henry is going to grow up and be able to one-up all his friends by saying, "Yeah, well, my mom wouldn't let us have a fridge."
Thankfully, Sharon was smart enough to create a facebook group, which has been great for ideas and support already. No, Rick is not yet on board. Yes, if I count the miles for the peaches and hunting, our transportation gets blown, right off the bat. But a lot of people are starting this off without their whole family being on board. And as the group pointed out, no one else is counting their food costs in their transportation budget. The tough thing about the riot, besides the obvious of course, is that it makes transparent the otherwise hidden costs of the way we consume. So we spend 25 gallons of gas to get a year's supply of peaches or meat. That cost is in front of us. The cost of fuel to get peaches shipped from another state (or country) is hidden. But it's still a real cost. The cost of commercially produced meat in fossil fuels is not very clear to most consumers at the grocery store. But there is a cost and it's high.
When I posted my peach/hunting debacle and sudden discouragement to the group, Sharon's response was "Maybe one of the questions to ask is, "even if we're not going to change this this year, what would we do if the cost of gas did exceed the other costs? What would we do if we felt we couldn't? Are there are other ways to do this?'" Those are very real and hard questions. Lots of people asked if there were closer orchards or ways to split the cost by getting peaches of others while we were there, which we've done in the past.
Perhaps my favorite response was a quote though, "The perfect is the enemy of the good." -Voltaire
It is so easy to get discouraged before you even get anything off the ground. I thought I was ready to start cruising the house for things to unplug and start taking sponge baths, September first. But I realized that with three kiddos under five years old and a husband not yet on board, maybe I should use September to evaluate where we are at. How much are we using in all of these categories? Where is our real, low hanging fruit – things we can do now, painlessly that will cut our energy consumption (using a clothesline, for example)? Also, Maybe I should cut myself (and my man) a bit of a break. I'm not the only one still waking up a couple times a night with the baby.
Then Apron Stringz jumped in. She beat me to the punch with a Riot post (see I'm still not even back on the blogging ball yet). And she announced her Quiet Riot idea, which I love. I think it's a wonderful idea. I'm not necessarily going to Quiet Riot, though I'm reserving the right to go back on that too. I really want to see if I can hit that 10% benchmark. But to get there, I'm going to take my time. For my family's sake, I am going to cut myself some slack. September will be the evaluation month. I know I can't do this all at once (none of us can).
More on this to come… my mind is reeling a bit, both with ideas and little inner battles. Stick with me, and don't judge me, please. I know how crazy I am.


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On the Road with Rick Holmes: How nostalgia infects politics, obscures choices
It was a stormy summer afternoon, and Hogback Mountain was enshrouded in fog.
The sign on the long-closed restaurant advertised "100 Mile View," but on that day no one could see more than 10 feet. I stopped at the overlook anyway, and stared into the fog.
Just before pulling away, I saw a sticker on the guardrail. "I Miss America," it said, on an outline of the USA.
That sign has haunted me in the weeks since. Who put it there? Does it date from the Obama administration, expressing some "take-back-America" sentiment? Or is it of a more recent vintage, a cry of liberal angst over the election of Trump? Is it about politics or something deeper?
What is it about America that the person behind the sticker misses, I wondered. What is it we miss about America? I've got my list, and I bet you've got yours.
I miss seeing kids playing pick-up games at the park during summer vacation. I miss the days when we didn't let "stranger danger" ruin childhood.
I miss elections where candidates tried to appeal to the center, not just fire up the base.
I miss the America that had a functioning Congress, where decisions were made, deals were struck and leaders treated each other with respect.
I miss an America where everything wasn't turned into an over-hyped controversy, where people, media and parties didn't find so much profit in driving us apart.
I miss a time when the American president was the leader of the free world, when America was respected by other nations, in part because we stood for something besides self-interest.
I miss the America where schools taught grammar, civics and the proper use of the word literally.
I miss the America where facts were facts, authority figures had authority and where science and expertise counted for something.
I miss civility. I miss the days when politicians would pay a price for crudeness at the polls and when kids in public places knew better than to drop f-bombs in front of old people and young children.
Other people miss the time when you didn't have to press "1" to speak English, when people weren't so quick to take offense at an off-color joke, when you could light up a cigarette pretty much anywhere you liked.
A lot of us miss the days when Americans were united, when neighborhoods and the country felt we were all in this together. "If the three musketeers were with us today," a friend told me, "their motto would be "all for one and all for one."
Oh, how we miss the good old days. That's what makes nostalgia such a potent ingredient in politics. That's why slogans like "Make America Great Again" have so much appeal.
One thing I've noticed about the good old days: Ask people when those halcyon days were, and they'll usually cite the decade when they were young. There's a reason the good old days tends to coincide with childhood. We were kids back then, blissfully ignorant of the problems of the adult world.
Take the 1950s, the decade when the boomers were kids. No decade has lasted so long in the public imagination as the good old days. That's when America was innocent and full of possibility (like those boomer children) and united. At least that's how things seemed in the family sitcoms that have come to define that era. For lots of real-life American adults, things weren't nearly so rosy.
Another thing about the good old days is they really weren't so good. Reliable statistics show the streets are much safer today than when most of us were growing up. Religious and ethnic tension and discrimination against minorities have been more the rule than the exception throughout our history. Vicious, partisan media coverage is nothing new.
But some of the things we miss about America are worth enumerating, studying and debating. If there's a way to restore real things that have been lost — economic mobility, manufacturing jobs or civics education, say — let's talk about the policies that might bring them back.
The 100-mile view of America shows more than nostalgia for times that maybe never were. It shows the distance traveled, and how far we have to go. It shows the choices yet to be made and, if only the political fog would lift, the road to a better place.
After all, the question isn't what we miss from the past. It's what we wish for the future.
— Rick Holmes can be reached at firstname.lastname@example.com. You can follow his journey at www.rickholmes.net. Like him on Facebook at Holmes & Co, on follow him on Twitter @HolmesAndCo.


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InSync12 Conference: Melbourne 21-22 August 2012 July 10, 2012Posted by Richard Foote in InSync12.
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I'll again be presenting at this year's InSync12 Conference, this year held in Melbourne on 21-22 August at the Sebel Albert Park Hotel. It's Australia's main Oracle conference of the year and should again be an excellent event with lots of great speakers.
I'll be presenting my paper on "Indexing In Exadata", which should be of interest even if you don't have an Exadata server at hand. The conference program has just been released, I'll be presenting at 9:00am on the Wednesday, 22 August 2012.
The day following the conference (Thursday, 23 August 2012), I'll also be presenting the InSync12 Technology Workshop which is included in the registration fee for full delegates of InSync12. I'll be presenting a mini version of my Oracle Index Internals seminar. You can find more details of this workshop here.
Hope to catch up with you at InSync12 🙂


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Peggy Noonan strikes again — this time inscrutably
Pat Cunningham
Last Friday, I had fun HERE mocking Wall Street Journal columnist Peggy Noonan for the inimitable — and, yes, sometimes graceful — way she displays her lack of keen political insight.
But it's not going to be so easy to mock Noonan's latest column. I can't even offer an excerpt that provides more than a vague hint of the senselessness of the piece. It's just a bunch of pseudo-clever passages piled atop one another.
But, hey, don't take my word for it. Read it for yourself. And if you can find a political moral in THESE 19 PARAGRAPHS OF NONSENSE...


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Woman comes face to face with escaped tiger in circus bathroom
SALINA, Kansas (FOX45) -- A Kansas woman taking a bathroom break during a circus act recently came face to face with an escaped tiger.
The big cat, named Leah, had escaped briefly after performing Saturday at the Isis Shrine Circus in Salina, according to the Salina Journal. Staff members had blocked off the concourses, but Leah somehow managed to sneak into the women's restroom.
Jenna Krehbiel told KWCH she found the tiger standing about 2 feet away when she opened the door. "I turned around calmly and walked back toward the door," she said. "Someone opened the door and said, 'Get out.'"
The tiger was quickly captured and returned to her cage. So how did Krehbiel stay so cool? Turns out she's a social worker, and told the Salina Journal she's trained to stay calm.
Krehbiel's 3-year-old daughter had a different reaction. "She asked me about the tiger in the bathroom, if the tiger washed its hands, and I told her 'Yes, of course.' Then she proceeded to ask if the tiger had any popcorn, which 'Yes, he did,'" she told KWCH.


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So I've joined close to a half dozen GDKP raids now, both ToC and ICC. I've gotten really lucky with upgrades for both my mage and my resto druid and think I can speak with a bit of authority on the subject. Since "GDKP" seems to be a search term leading people to this blog, I thought I'd post some tips.
First and most importantly: DO NOT BUY GOLD
If you honestly don't know why, the short version is that gold sellers are thieves, liars, scammers and hackers. They primarily make their gold by hacking accounts, stealing whatever virtual goods are on them, turning it into gold and sending it to mules. Or they'll turn hacked characters into botted farmers. Everyone knows someone who has been hacked. My own brother was hacked (he has since admitted that maybe making his WoW login name and his main character's name the same thing was a bad idea). Friends and guildmates have been hacked. It's not funny.
Gold selling is not a victimless crime.
If you need gold, go read blogs like Greedy Goblin or JustMy2Copper or Phase3Profit. Spend some time grinding gold. Back in TBC I ran the Sunwell dailies religiously for three weeks to afford epic flight. Since then I've learned to use the auction house and my own skills better and can usually show up at a GDKP with about 30k gold for Reversion and me to spend.
Digression over, on with the show.
1. Know How It Works
In general, a GDKP will be a 25 man raid of as much of the top raid as can be reasonably cleared. Whoever organizes it is responsible for raid makeup and must balanced geared players with rich ungeared players. The geared players may be coming for one trinket or just the gold; the ungeared players, for gear and to see content they might not get access to otherwise.
When a boss is downed, the loot master will link the drops in raid chat and then take bids on them using an addon that does the auctioning work for him. The minimum bid may be whatever was agreed upon; 1000 gold is pretty common, with recipes and components perhaps lower. There is also an agreed bid increment, usually 100 gold. You place your bid in raid chat. Whoever has the highest bid, gets the item.
At the end of the raid, the pot is divided equally among the raiders.
There may be variations in these rules, such as penalties for being an idiot, or disobeying orders. There may be rules for what happens if you leave early or are kicked from the raid. Get this in writing; ask the raid leader to type the rules in raid chat before the start, for everyone's protection. If you have to file a complaint later, having the details in raid chat gives Blizzard a place to start their investigations. If all details are conducted over Vent, it's just your word against theirs.
2. Know The Organizers
First, you'll want to be sure the raid is going to get somewhere. It's no fun being locked to a raid ID that only downs Marrowgar. Look for GDKPs run by the top guilds on your servers. Sure, it's probably their alts that are going but the alts of top raiders are usually well geared and competent.
Second, make sure you can trust them. If XXArthaaasXX is spamming trade for "TOGC25 GDKP run" and he belongs to "Dæthz Knightz", be careful. The pots can get really big and you don't want someone walking away with all the gold. Again, big name guilds usually care about their reputation on server and won't scam someone without a good reason.
3. Be Prepared
If the guy organizing the raid has been spamming trade all week advertising it and asking you to sign up on the guild's site or the official realm discussion board, don't expect to get a slot at the last minute by whispering him. You might get lucky, you might not. Follow the rules, sign up or send an in game message ahead of time. They may ask for armory page, specs, gold you have available to spend – don't be tempted to lie here. Be upfront. A good GDKP is an ongoing phenomenon and you would probably like to be invited back.
Gather your gold together on the character you want to take to the raid before you go. You don't want to have to zone out halfway through for more gold.
Act like this is a real raid, because it is. Get your flasks, potions, buff food, gemming, and enchants ready beforehand. Bring gems and enchants for anything you might want to equip right away.
Know the fights. Again this goes with knowing the raid. If you have done the first four ICC fights and that's as far as the GDKP is going, great. If you've done the first four but the GDKP advertises that it regularly downs Putricide, then learn the fights you haven't seen. Watch a general strategy video and read advice on whatever roles you might be asked to perform. Note: not "what role you normally are". Sometimes they will ask you to play as your off spec, even if your main is better geared. GDKP runs are about filling holes with bodies, not about letting YOU do what you really want. If you want to run ICC as a resto druid and nothing else, join a guild or pay a guild to take you in that role. If you want to pay money for gear, do what the raid leader asks.
Get Vent, if you don't have it. Any successful GDKP is going to use a voice server; there's just no other way to manage 25 people. If you are not at least listening in Vent, you may (and probably should) be kicked. You need to know when the raid leader wants you to move, not just do what you think is best.
Get Deadly Boss Mods, or your equivalent mod of choice. Make sure it's up to date.
4. Know What You Want
Before the fight, go look at the loot tables for every boss you are expecting to down. Write down a post-it note list of what pieces that boss drops that you want, and how much you want it.
Why not just wait and see what drops? Several reasons. First, you want to make a mental budget. If you know the one item you really really want drops from Marrowgar, then if it drops you can spend as much as you want on it, and if it doesn't drop, go ahead later and spend money on things you didn't care as much about. On the other hand, if you really want a Gunship drop, then don't blow all your money on Marrowgar.
If you have an offset that you are thinking about gearing: again, prioritize. Don't spend 10k on a drop from Marrowgar if your main set might get three or four drops later. But if a piece is going for a song, bid on it! I picked up Niebulung, a caster staff for my offset the last time I ran ICC for the minimum bid because no one wanted it.
A word about BOEs: some bosses drop loot that is Bind on Equip, not Bind on Pickup. Check these while you're researching. If they happen to be best in slot for you, be prepared to spend a lot of money because chances are, some capitalist on the run will try to buy it to re-sell on the Auction House. Is that person you? Make sure you know what it's really worth. Don't spend 2k on primordial saronite if they usually sell for 1800 gold; don't spend 12k on Marrowgar's Frigid Eye if it sells for 6k. And remember that the heroic version of the BOEs are NOT BoE; don't bid on one if you can't use it! The raid leader will probably hold you to your bid…
5. Bidding strategy
If you're like me, the moment you see that one of 'your' items dropped, your adrenaline kicks in. Forget about the boss fight, this is the real action! Your heart races, your hands shake, you start messing up as you type – and all of a sudden you just bid 18000 gold instead of 1800. Ooops. Or you mistyped and whispered your bid to your friend. Even more oops.
By having your priority list mentioned above, you should have an idea of how high you are willing to go. Start low, see what competition you have. Prices will pretty quickly get to the range where people who don't want the item that much drop out. Then you either win, or get into a one on one bidding war.
Don't go over your budget. Make your highest bid amount mentally and stick to it. Conversely, don't take yourself out of the game prematurely; if you were willing to spend 5k gold on that hat, bid 5k!
If you see a bidding war forming up, you can try the "money dump" method; bid something like 2/3rds of your 'high bid', if that will take the amount a good bit higher than where it currently is. This shows your competitors that you are serious, that you have at least that much gold, and that they'd better be serious if they want to compete with you. Psychology is a weird thing. If you sloooowwwly creep up to, say, 5k, in 100 gold increments, you are much more likely to bid 5100 gold than if the price goes from 2k to 5k instantly.
Don't be afraid to go for broke. Unless you screw up royally, you are going to come out with 1/25th the pot – that'll at least be repair costs for you until you can earn a little money back. Again, don't take more gold than you're willing to spend. Don't borrow gold from a friend; that's a good way to ruin the friendship. Borrow gold from your spouse or partner, yes, if you can't give that money back then you have more problems than I'm going to talk about ;-D
Final Notes
GDKPs are a lot of fun if they're well run. I highly recommend them. Remember that the other people on the raid are coming for gear or cash, not just the pleasure of your company, and treat them that way. Be respectful and honest. Don't waste their time; time = gold on these runs and if you waste time, you may find yourself out in the cold.


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In an unprecendented turn of events, the Washington Nationals announced during Saturday night's game that racing president and fan favorite Teddy Roosevelt had been injured during pre-game warmups and would not participate in the presidents race.
With the Nationals trailing the Florida Marlins in the top of the 4th inning, the Nationals Park announcer said that Teddy's status was "day to day."
Sure enough, when the presidents race began, Teddy was nowhere to be seen.
It was "Pups in the Park" night at Nationals Park, with the Washington, DC Humane Society running its adopt-a-pet program for fans in the outfield picnic area, and dog owners invited to bring their dogs to the game. The sold out promotion filled up section 201, where Humane Society volunteers helped keep
an eye on the pets and their owners.
In keeping with the spirit of the evening, George Washington took the early lead in the 4th-inning race, and dropped a fire hydrant along the outfield warning track. Abe Lincoln tripped on the hydrant, leaving George with a clear path to another first place finish.
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Lung cancer scans backed for older, heavy smokers
After decades of qualms about lung cancer screening, the American Cancer Society says there now is enough evidence to recommend it, but only for current and former heavy smokers ages 55 to 74 and after a frank talk about risks and benefits.
The new guidelines, announced Friday, are a cautious but exciting step against the world's most deadly cancer, doctors who wrote the advice say.
It is based on a big study in 2011 that found annual, low-dose CT scans - a type of X-ray - could cut the chances of dying of lung cancer by 20 percent and from any cause by nearly 7 percent.
The study only included older people who smoked a pack of cigarettes a day for 30 years or the equivalent, such as two packs a day for 15 years. Whether screening would help others isn't known, so scans were not advised for them.
"We're trying to make sure we restrict harm that might come from screening," such as unneeded biopsies and follow-up procedures when scans falsely suggest cancer, said Dr. Richard Wender, family medicine chief at Thomas Jefferson University in Philadelphia. Lung cancer is fairly rare before age 55, so "the benefits of screening are going to be less if you start at a younger age."
Wender, a former Cancer Society president, led the guidelines panel. Three of its 20 members have ties to companies that make cancer treatment or imaging products. The scans cost $100 to as much as $400 and are not covered by Medicare or private insurers.
"We believe insurance companies should cover this test for the right people - not for everybody," Wender said.
More than 160,000 people die of lung cancer in the United States alone each year, and the vast majority are diagnosed after the disease has spread.
Cancer screening has provoked great argument in recent years, especially over when and how often women should get mammograms and whether men should have PSA blood tests to look for prostate cancer.
Some of the most influential guidelines come from a government-appointed panel - the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force - but it hasn't considered lung cancer screening since 2004, when it said there wasn't enough evidence to recommend for or against it. An update is in the works now.
The Cancer Society used to recommend screening with chest X-rays but withdrew that advice in 1980 after studies showed they weren't saving lives. Since then, the CT scans have come into wider use, and several medical groups backed limited screening with them.
Many private companies also market CT scans directly to the public, including for some who are at lower risk for lung cancer than the people in major studies have been.
WellStar Health System, a network of hospitals and private doctors in suburban Atlanta, has screened nearly 900 people since 2008. Less than 3 percent were referred for lung biopsies because of suspicious findings, and of those, 70 percent turned out to have lung cancer, said screening coordinator Vickie Beckler.
The system generally follows the advice of the National Comprehensive Cancer Network, a group of top cancer centers, but eligibility for scans is "a very fluid area" that's being refined, she said. Patients younger than 50 need a doctor's referral for a scan, but if they want one and have major risk factors, "it should be their prerogative to have access to screening as long as they understand the risks and benefits involved and come to that decision with their physician," she said.
Kathy DeJoseph, 62, of suburban Atlanta, is glad she was screened as part of a study at WellStar. Several years of scans found nothing but last year, one detected cancer.
"I'd have been dead had I not had that scan," she said. "I was very, very lucky."
She also finally quit smoking after 40 years to qualify for lung cancer surgery.
Counseling smokers on how to quit is part of the Cancer Society's guidance. Having a scare from a scan "is a great motivator for people to quit smoking - fear that they might have had lung cancer, that they dodged a bullet, really causes people to change and take a look at their behavior," Wender said.
People also should be told that a normal scan doesn't mean no change is needed.
"The absolute worse thing that would happen" is people thinking "now I'm safe and I can continue smoking," he said.


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The Society's journal 'Weather' was first published in 1946 when Gordon Manley was President of the Society and the journal benefited from his encouragement. The Gordon Manley Prize is awarded annually for any outstanding contribution to Weather through furthering the public understanding of meteorology and oceanography. The Met Office Global and Regional Climate Series team received the prize and is made up of David Parker, John Kennedy, Colin Morice and Holly Titchner.
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East Coast residents were buzzing on social media sites and elsewhere Friday night after a brief but bright flash of light streaked across the early-evening sky —in what experts say was almost certainly a meteor coming down.
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Moore said the flash was visible to him for about two to three seconds — and then it was gone. He described it as having a "spherical shape and yellowish and you could tell it was burning, with the trail that it left behind."
"Set as it was against a cloudless sky over Philadelphia, it was amazing," he said.
Derrick Pitts, chief astronomer at Philadelphia's Franklin Institute, agreed that the sightings had all the hallmarks of a "fireball." These include lasting 7-10 seconds, being bright and colorful, and seeming to cross much of the sky with a long stream behind it.
He said what people likely saw was one meteor — or "space rock" — that may have been the size of a softball or volleyball and that fell fairly far down into the Earth's atmosphere.
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The newspaper reports that the sky flash was spotted as far south as Florida and as far north as New England.
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Huck is... innocent!
It turns out, Scandal's gladiator in a red hoodie was framed by his girlfriend Becky (Susan Pourfar), who lured him to the hotel under the guise of having a substance-abuse relapse. When he arrived, the gun fired by remote control, leaving him to take the fall for attempting to assassinate President Fitz (Tony Goldwyn).
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